Pressing machine with work support



Sept. 6, 1932. P. N. BRAUN PRIELFSIIINIG MACHINE WITH WORK SUPPORT Filed Jan. 19, 1929 INVENTOR;

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Patented Sept. 6, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE PHILIP N. BRAUN, 0F SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE PROSPERITY OM- PANY INC., or SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK PRESSING MACHINE WITH WORK SUPPORT Application filed January 19 1929. Serial No. 333,614.

This invention relates to garment and laundry pressing machines and has for its ob ect a particularly simple and efficient work support for holding the portion of the Work which overhangs or isunsupported by the pressing element so that the weight of the normally unsupported or overhanging part of the Work will not disarrange the part of the work on the pressing element.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed;

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawing in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevation of a pressing machine embodying this invention.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of parts seen in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a plan View illustrating the work support for the portion of the workunsupported by the lower pressing element or platen of a garment and laundry pressing machine, said support being located in front of the lower pressing element or buck and shiftable relatively thereto into and out of operative relation to the pressing element.

In pressing certain articles as shirts, the collars and cuffs are pressed in one operation so that the major portion of the garment is hanging over the edge of the pressing element. The weight of this overhanging portion tends to disarrange the cuffs and collars. g

I have here illustrated my invention as embodied in the conventional'type of pressing machine including a lower p'ressing'element or buckl and head 2 movable toward andfrom the buck 1. The buck 1 is mounted on a gooseneck or bracket 3-which in turn is mounted on a table 4L carried by a frame 5.- L,

The head 2 is carried and operated in any suitable manner. The operation of the head forms] no part of this invention.

6 designates the work support for the portion of the garment or work unsupported by or on the pressingface of the buck 1, this support having a head 7 normally arranged substantially the level of the buck 1 and the support being shiftable to carry its head 7 out of operative position so as not to be an obstruction'when it is not used in the pressing of the garment. v 1

As here illustrated'the support 6 is mount-- ed to shift vertically to carry thehead 7 from a position close'to the table 4 into" its normal position at nearly the level of the buck.

In the illustrated embodiment of my invention, the support is a shelf extending angularly from one or more upright members which slidevertically through the table, and the shelf is preferably carried bytwo upright arms or rods slidable through guides 8, mounted on the table. The guides 8 are provided with means such as spring pressed pop-- pets 9 which engage depressions in the upright rods to hold thesupport Ginits elevated position, preferably the head 7 is inthe form of a bail bent at an angle to the' I rods. suitable crossbar 9 connects the opposing arms of the bail for service as a handle to lower andelev'ate the support;

i In operation, when the cuffs and collars are to be ironed the support is elevated into the position shown Figures 1 and 2, by pulling upwardly on the handle 9 andithe shirt applied to the buck, as shown in Figure '3,- in

which the support 6 underlies the yoke of the shirt and supports the shirt so that the weight thereof does not pull the cuffs and collars off the buck 1 before the head 2 comes down on the buck 1; 1 When another portion of the shirt oranother garmentis being pressed, as shown in Figure 4, where the weight of the overhang is not sufficient to disarrange the shirt, the support is movedjdownwardly into the dotted line position shown in Figure 1.

By my invention, the same pressing machine can be used to press different classes of work and at the same time is adaptable when necessary to press the cuffs and collars of shirts, this operation, particularly the cuff pressing operation, having heretofore been performed on 'a special pressing machine.

What I claim is:

.1. Ina pressingmachine,.an;elevated platen pressing element and a work support 10- cated in front of the pressing element to support that portion of the work whichpis unsupported by the pressing element, said work support including a plurality of supporting rods having horizontally disposed upper portions to form a head; guide means in which said supporting rods are slidably mounted for shifting the worksupport into and out of juxtaposition to the pressing element.

2. In a pressing machine, a table, an elevated pressing element supported on the table, and a wor support for the portion of thework unsupported by the pressing element, the work support'being located in front of the pressing element, said worksupport including supporting rods mounted for vertical sliding movement and bent over at their upper ends toward the pressing element to form a head substantially at the level of the pressing element when said work support is in raised position, guide meansin which said rods aremounted for vertical slidingzmovement to shift the work support into and out of operativerelation to the pressing element.

"3. In a pressing machine, a frame,including a.tab1e,.a pressing element, brackets supporting the pressing element elevatedabove the table, a work supportfor'that portion of the work which isunsupported by the pressing element, the work support comprising a rodbent'in a form havingtwosubstantially upright portions and a center bail portion substantially horizontally disposed, guide means in which'said upright portions-are slidably mounted to shift said work support vertically relative to the table to carry the bailportion into and out of position substan tially level with the pressing element, and

pressed latch means engaging with a depresl sion in said upright slidable member to hold the work support in its set position.

5. In a pressing machine, a frame including a table, a pressing element, brackets supporting the pressing element elevated above thetable, va work support for that portion of the work which is unsupported'by'th'e press- -ing "element, the work support comprising substantially parallel upright members I slidably mounted in the table in front of the pressing element and havin an angular horizontal shelf -portion,gguide means in which said upright members are slidably mounted to shift said work support vertically relative to the table to carry the shelfv into and out of position substantially level with the pressing element, spring pressed latch means engaging with depressions" in said upright slidable means forholdingthe support inits elevated position. v I

4,= In -a.pressing machine, a frame including a tablfe, a pressing element,-brackets supporting the pressing element elevated above the table,a work support for that portion of the work. .which is iunsupported by the pressing element,.the work support comprising an upright .member sl-idably mounted in the table in front of the pressing element and having an angular horizontal shelf portion,

guidemeans in which said upright member is slidably mounted'to shift said work support-verticallyrelativeto the tableto carry the shelfinto and outofposition substantiallyglevejl- 'with'the pressing element and spring 

